Improve Fidelity and Utility of Synthetic Credit Card Transaction Time Series from Data-centric Perspective

Exploring generative model training for synthetic tabular data, specifically in sequential contexts such as credit card transaction data, presents significant challenges. This paper addresses these challenges, focusing on attaining both high fidelity to actual data and optimal utility for machine le...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-01
Main Authors: Din-Yin Hsieh, Chi-Hua, Wang, Cheng, Guang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Autoregressive models
Cognitive tasks
Machine learning
Synthetic data
Tables (data)
Time series
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Summary:Exploring generative model training for synthetic tabular data, specifically in sequential contexts such as credit card transaction data, presents significant challenges. This paper addresses these challenges, focusing on attaining both high fidelity to actual data and optimal utility for machine learning tasks. We introduce five pre-processing schemas to enhance the training of the Conditional Probabilistic Auto-Regressive Model (CPAR), demonstrating incremental improvements in the synthetic data's fidelity and utility. Upon achieving satisfactory fidelity levels, our attention shifts to training fraud detection models tailored for time-series data, evaluating the utility of the synthetic data. Our findings offer valuable insights and practical guidelines for synthetic data practitioners in the finance sector, transitioning from real to synthetic datasets for training purposes, and illuminating broader methodologies for synthesizing credit card transaction time series.
ISSN:2331-8422